That wasn't so bad after all

After dropping off Princess at the airport, which I should say was an act of such brutal efficiency that Rachael and I should have won a gold medal in the taking a friend to the airport event, we went straight to my parents house.

At first I wanted to put off having Rachael meet my parents. I had just recently met Rachael's parents. We were both looking forward to a break from "big" couple type events. I wasn't worried my parents wouldn't like her or that she wouldn't like them. I just wanted to do things on my own schedule.

Jen called though a few days after I told my mom about Rachael and I. She ripped into me about how it's not fair that I'm not letting my mom meet Rachael before her wedding party. That it would be really uncomfortable for both Rachael and my mom to meet each other at the party. That I'm being completely immature about this and not taking mom's feelings into account.

I responded with:
A) Mom makes too big a deal over things like this
B) It shouldn't be a big deal.
C) What the hell's wrong with meeting at the party? Mom this is Rachael. Rachael this is mom. Oh look booze. And plenty of distractions.

In the end, to please my adopted sister, I agreed to talk to mom about arranging a meeting. I know it sound like I just acquiesced. I did. But it was more out of respect for Jen and her wedding party thing that I did so. Plus I talked to Rachael about it and she said it will be better just it over with too, especially if anyone was going to make a big deal about it.

We arrived at my parents house. Rachael was pretty nervous. More nervous than I thought she would be. She was welcomed by my parents' three dogs Chloe, Molly and Macey. Since Rachael was completely new, they went kind of ape shit over her. I gave her a quick tour around the inside of the house and then off to Olive Garden.

Mom chose the most crowded Olive Garden in the Valley. WTG mom. While we waited we did small talk stuff. I resolved myself going into this to tease mom quite a bit so as to take the focus of Rachael so she wouldn't feel like a bug under glass.

Basically it went well. Dad was even quieter than usual. Mom handled me teasing her fairly well. Rachael was quiet but not oddly so. She's usually shy around new people so I wasn't too surprised by that. It was good.

Rachael and I were driving back to my place. Talking about the days events. She likes my parents quite a bit, especially my dad. Knew that was going to happen. All my girlfriend's love my dad and my dad loves all my girlfriends. She said she enjoys immensely family male talk. When the men in my family start talking together, the conversation moves very quickly, very loudly with very little order. If you want to jump in you have to shout or do something to stop the hurtling train of chat. Most people find it annoying. I love that Rachael enjoys it. She got to see a good taste of it earlier on Saturday when she and my brother and I went to lunch before seeing 300.

Er...umm....ok that's all I really had to say about the parentals meeting. Check that out bitches, three blog posts in three days and we haven't even got to the Vegas posts yet. I am a golden God.